Finally offering some explanation for what Muni operators are doing when they hop off the bus and run inside the Burger King at Market and Eighth, the Examiner takes a look at Muni's problematic lack of bathroom facilities today. Apparently, the number of places where drivers can stop for a pee break has been slowly dwindling over the past 10 years, which has the Transport Workers Union understandably pissed off.

"In the last decade, the bathroom situation for the operators has been nothing less than deplorable,” Ron Austin, a spokesman for the union told the Examiner. Drivers are going up to 2 hours without a spot to pee and even the bathrooms that are available are diplomatically described as having "less than optimal conditions for any human being."

In the past, drivers have gotten in trouble for running in to local businesses to drain their bladders while on the job. Not to mention the gross fact that many of the porta-potties the SFMTA has strategically placed for drivers often don't have water — meaning there's another person on the bus who didn't wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

Anyhow, SFMTA is putting $650,000 of their negative $14.6 million budget to build new facilities around the system, plus whatever it costs to bribe local businesses to let Muni operators hold on to their bathroom keys.

[SFEx]